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Black People Are Still In The Dark When It Comes To HIV

By Angelo C. Louw NNPA Guest Columnist With new infection rates and AIDS-related deaths on a decline globally, it seems we are finally gaining ground in...

Judge Rules 5-Hour ENERGY® Violated Consumer Protection Act

According to a ruling filed in King County Superior Court, the makers of 5-hour ENERGY® violated the state’s Consumer Protection Act by making claims...

Clinton Rolls Out Mental Health Plan

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Contributor Hillary Clinton said she’s alarmed by the statistics. Approximately one in five adults in the United States – or 43.8 million...

Transgender People, ‘The Most Heavily Burdened’ HIV Population, No Longer Invisible

By Hilary Beard Black AIDS Institute, via George Curry Media   DURBAN, South Africa - With all the talk about HIV-related health disparities, no group can make...

Religious Community Still Struggling With The Gospel Of HIV

By George E. Curry Editor-in-Chief, Emerge News Online DURBAN, South Africa - Rev. Edwin C. Sanders, II, sized up his audience at the 21st International AIDS Conference...

Phill Wilson: We Must Stay In The Game Until We End the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

A conversation with the Black AIDS Institute’s president and chief executive officer. By Tamara Holmes BAI Contributing Writer  BAI Daily: Where are we in the HIV/AIDS epidemic...

Mass Incarceration Accelerating The Spread Of HIV Among Black Women

By George Curry and Tomika Anderson BAI Contributing Writers DURBAN, South Africa – Efforts to halt the spread of HIV among African Americans, the most impacted...

Zika Was In Haiti Before Exploding In Brazil

Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from North Star News (Trice Edney Wire) - The Zika virus was present in Haiti several months before...

Phill Wilson: Still Answering The Black AIDS Call At 60

By Karen Ocamb Black AIDS Institute The first cases of what became HIV/AIDS hit the news on June 5, 1981. Soon, Phill Wilson, then just 25,...

City Council Endorses Prescription Drug Take-Back Program

The Seattle City Council unanimously approved legislation encouraging local pharmacies and police precincts to set up drop-boxes for unused, surplus prescription medicines, including controlled...

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Louisiana Gunman Killed 8 Children, Including 7 Of His Own, Police...

Shamar Elkins, a 31-year-old man, fatally shot eight children, seven of them his own, in three Shreveport, Louisiana homes on Sunday morning, marking the nation's deadliest mass shooting since January 2024.